The new moon rises over the Memorial Day holiday, bringing some extra-low morning tides just around sunrise for the week.
As the northern elephant seal and whale seasons ebb away, the snowy plover nesting and harbor seal pupping seasons arrive. It appears the tenacious plovers lost some of their first nests and hatchlings to high winds and raven predation, but the parents got right back to mating and building new nests. Though the wind buried…